Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In developed countries, recycled paper is very easy to find, yet not nearly enough people are making that switch. Recycled paper can save the Earth; here are some facts that reveal how and why. words Ana Yong Recycled paper has been around for a long time but not everyone is using it. offices use 12.1 offices use 12.1

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The platform is the fruit of an early European gasification and methanation demonstrator project, and is supported by the French electrical utility ENGIE and the French agency for ecological transition ADEME. ENGIE’s demonstrator has apparently validated the integrated operation of the entire chain of technologies under industrial conditions.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Instead by composting this waste, methane emissions will be significantly reduced.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The good news is that you can reuse most of the products you buy from the store like plastic containers and food packaging materials. The energy savings from recycled products also makes it much cheaper to recycle than to process raw materials. How much energy saved usually depends on the materials being recycled.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Going green starts at home, and while separating paper from plastic in your recycling bin is a great first start, there are more steps you can take to be less wasteful and reduce your carbon footprint. 1) Reduce plastic waste in your kitchen. 14) Reuse plastic bags or containers. – Violet Defense.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We’ve all been guilty of buying an unsustainable beverage every once in a while, but when faced with the perplexing conundrum of whether to grab that plastic bottle or aluminum can, which do you believe to be more environmentally-friendly ? By the 1960s, the first occurrence of plastic pollution in the oceans was recorded.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2021

The plastic problem is well documented around the globe, from the petroleum needed to produce it to the fact that every piece of plastic ever manufactured is still on the planet in some form — and will be for generations. On a mission to eliminate plastic from kitchen and bathroom products, the recently launched U.K.-based

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Less than 10% of plastic gets recycled, and we’re now each ingesting a credit cards’ worth of microplastics a week. Bonus points if you sell your existing furniture rather than send it to the landfill (where it otherwise releases uber-potent methane for years). Say Yes to Natural, Recyclable, or Sustainable Materials.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Bacteria in the digesters consume the waste, creating methane and CO2 as byproducts. Vanguard has seven recycling facilities in the Northeast plus one in Colorado and another in Georgia. Our goal is to say, 'No.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint). Organic waste in landfills generates methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Instead by composting this waste, methane emissions will be significantly reduced.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Carbonova Corp utilizes CO2 and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings. The post Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022 appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. Pollutants and plastic. Burning a higher proportion of plastics produces more HCL and less SO2. The changing shape of waste.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 3, 2024

It can also be converted into useful products like plastics, concrete and even biofuel, through innovative chemical processes, providing a sustainable way to repurpose CO2 emissions. Hydrogen production primarily happens through two methods: electrolysis and steam methane reforming (SMR).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Reducing waste through recycling is an obvious answer, and almost half of domestic waste is now recycled. But recycling cannot eliminate all waste. Landfill suffers from methane emissions as waste degrades. Those plastics are the cause of fossil emissions of ERFs so this would drive up the climate benefit of ERF.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. “For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created.

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has today unveiled a demonstration tyre made using with 70 per cent sustainable-material content, including soy bean oil, rice husks, and plastic recycled from old bottles. But leading companies are now racing to develop lower impact tyres and boost recycling rates across the sector.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m emissions reduction push. emissions reduction push.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For many of us, what we thought were adorable little toys as youngsters we now view as today’s non-recyclable waste problem. You open a plastic bag to get another plastic item, which is played with for five minutes and then probably goes in the bin,” she told the Wall Street Journal when they reported on the campaign in 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. “For too long the debate has been stuck on recycling and how to deal with waste once it is created.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

applies synthetic biology to reverse climate change through engineering microbes to use CO 2 or methane as a feedstock for the production of carbon-negative industrial chemicals, such as ethylene. Rather than making basic chemicals from fossil fuels, CERT can recycle carbon emissions to generate drop-in chemical building blocks.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 8, 2022

Landfill sites in developed countries are already overloaded with domestic and commercial waste including plastics and other commodities that could be recycled. High volumes of methane gas are an increasing problem, but the irresponsible disposal of e-waste is adding to the burden. Recycling is a Security Measure.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 28, 2021

Scientists recognize that while coffee grounds seem harmless, when in the landfill they actually release methane gas, which has a greenhouse effect 28 times higher than carbon dioxide. The process minimizes coffee waste by diverting it from the waste stream, and it reduces carbon dioxide and methane emissions.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

This article exposes the flawed system of waste management within hotels and provides practical solutions for reducing three prominent hotel wastes: food, water and plastic waste. Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. Minimize Food Waste.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2021

Bioplastics As An Alternative to Petroleum-Based Plastics. The development of bioplastics – plastics that are biodegradable and made of natural materials – provides businesses with eco-friendly alternatives for packaging and products, especially single-use items that contribute a lot of waste.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Can you find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials? Where do you install recycling bins and for what materials and waste? In other words, how can the use of everyday materials in the office be substituted with more sustainable, recycled, and reused materials? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

And over the years, greedy corporate practices have led to a significant increase in pollution and dwindling resources from the burning of fossil fuels, plastic waste, water usage, wasteful use of materials, and an overall detrimental carbon footprint. . Start small by implementing a recycling program in the office. Others are minute.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Methane, which is released as organic matter in landfill decomposes, traps up to 20 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Buy and use recyclable containers. After batch cooking, recyclable containers come in very handy for storing your food. Refrain from using single plastic water bottles.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2021

The Environmental Services Association (ESA) yesterday published a detailed new plan, setting out how the waste and recycling sector could mobilise £10bn of investment over the decade to help put the UK on track to meet its medium and long term emissions goals.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

Ruminant protein - cows, sheep, goats and other livestock that produce methane when they digest - accounts for more than two-thirds of agricultural emissions and so a 1.5C The challenge is arguably even more daunting for the agricultural sector where emissions are set to increase by roughly 15 to 20 per cent by mid-century.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Elemental Recycling ’s single-step, proprietary process recycles any and all plastics and tires into high-purity graphene and hydrogen.

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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The New York City startup will likewise provide “green bubbles” for sodas and use carbon to make plastic bottles. Another California startup, Opus 12 , is turning waste carbon into materials for plastics and transportation fuels. Still, the technology doesn’t exactly eliminate carbon; it recycles it.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Russian design student Nikita Konopatov has unveiled an innovative proposal for an environmentally friendly car with a body made from recyclable plastics. Created as a solution to the worldwide problem of air pollution and the ubiquity of plastics, the design exercise proposes a greener alternative to gas-powered vehicles.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled. Recycle paper, plastic, and glass. Photo by Frimufilms on Freepik Recycling is your way of giving materials a second chance while reducing the strain on our landfills. Keep a recycling bin handy to make this practice a no-brainer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

billion tonnes of greenhouse emissions could be slashed annually through improved recycling, composting, and waste separation. The report also notes that reforming the waste sector could cut emissions of methane - the greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon, but with a shorter life - by 13 per cent globally.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Though many of us might assume tossing something organic like a pumpkin into the trash isn’t as bad as tossing plastic, the reality is that organic waste doesn’t decompose as easily as we might think in landfills. Pumpkin waste from Halloween that ends up in landfills release the greenhouse gas (GHG), methane gas.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Food is the number one component taking up space in US landfills and it produces methane, a more potent greenhouse gas. Just as you have blue bins for recyclable materials, brown bins are meant only for organic materials. Composting converts organic waste into soil carbon, averting landfill methane emissions in the process.

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